Captain Liu told him that K. C. Wu was a traitor and inasmuch as Hsuan had criticized Chaing Kaishek and the Nationalist Government. he. Hsuan. would be executed when he returned to Taiwan. Rather than return to certain death. Hsuan applied in April of 1954 for relief under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. In May of 1954 he refused to return to Formosa and wrote a letter to the Minister of National Defense of the Chinese Nationalist Government stating that he could not return to Formosa until a democratic government existed on the island. He then went to Evanston.